Architectures of imagination: buildings, fictions, and worlds

该项目旨在通过对关键建筑（草莓山、Fonthill修道院、Abbotsford）的研究，介绍小说和想象力在18世纪（1700-1835）漫长的空间生产中所扮演的角色；与他们有关的小说（奥特朗托、瓦泰克、韦弗利）；以及这些建筑、文本和它们的读者/居民之间的关系。在这些初步研究的基础上，该项目旨在对18世纪的想象力、现代想象力建筑的出现以及从新古典主义到浪漫主义的过渡进行新的描述，同时将这些发展与当前关于空间、创造力和快速扩张的生命政治领域的辩论进行对话。

This project aims to offer an account of the roles played by fiction and imagination in the production of space during the long 18th century (1700-1835), through studies of key buildings (Strawberry Hill, Fonthill Abbey, Abbotsford); the fictions with which they were associated (Otranto, Vathek, Waverley); and the relation between these buildings, texts, and their readers/inhabitants. Drawing on these primary studies, the project will aim to develop a new account of the 18th-century imagination, the emergence of modern architectures of imagination, and the transition from neoclassicism to romanticism, while bringing these developments into dialogue with current debates about space, creativity, and the rapidly expanding field of biopolitics.